A nonprofit organization that researches links between social media, hate and extremism has been threatened with a lawsuit by X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.
Twitter is threatening legal action against the Center for Countering Digital Hate, a nonprofit that researches hate speech and content moderation on social media platforms.
The letter from Twitter’s lawyers alleges that CCDH’s research publications are intended to ‘harm Twitter’s business by driving advertisers away from the platform with incendiary claims.’
This is a pretty bold move from Twitter, especially considering that CCDH is a well-respected organization that has been doing this kind of research for years. And it’s especially ironic coming from Elon Musk, who has said that he’s a ‘free speech absolutist.’
But Musk has also shown that he’s sensitive to criticism, so it’s not surprising that he’s taking this kind of action against CCDH
“Free speech for me, not for thee”. God, I’m THIS close to deleting my account there and just migrating back to Tumblr and bluesky. There are just too many users I love that haven’t moved anywhere else yet.
Stop giving Musk free publicity. Don’t post or upvote Musk spam.
Edit Not posting Musk spam on Lemmy does not mean there’s no accountability. What Musk wants is for idiots like you to keep upvoting his daily bullshit and doing his marketing for free.
Isn’t that what you’re doing right now? If no one can post even an opinion against it, you’re clearly the hypocrite to say not them but it’s entirely ok for you to do it
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Please, please do that. I can’t wait to see the discovery portion of the trial
Yes, let’s see the data
Even better, the emails from Musk about this. Those would be a bombshell.
The man-child billionaire says he is not for censorship, while using the judicial system to censor.
Driving ur attention to here:
X is a free public service funded largely by advertisers.
X aware that the CCDH gained access to X’s data without Brandwatch’s authorization,
How did they get the data? By visiting the public website. Unless browsing Ten is illegal that’s a baseless claim.
I mean, you can’t really view anything on Brand X anymore without a login.
EDIT: Looks like they brought back non-logged-in feed viewing, for now at least. They seem to go back and forth on that pretty frequently.
“Free speech for me, not for thee”. God, I’m THIS close to deleting my account there and just migrating back to Tumblr and bluesky. There are just too many users I love that haven’t moved anywhere else yet.
Learn to be okay missing out on that content
Stop giving Musk free publicity. Don’t post or upvote Musk spam.
Edit Not posting Musk spam on Lemmy does not mean there’s no accountability. What Musk wants is for idiots like you to keep upvoting his daily bullshit and doing his marketing for free.
Isn’t that what you’re doing right now? If no one can post even an opinion against it, you’re clearly the hypocrite to say not them but it’s entirely ok for you to do it
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So let them operate under the radar and avoid any and all accountability? I think that might be exactly what Musk wants.
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This is a great example of a SLAPP suit
So Twitter is Prince now, got it.
Wasn’t he all about free speech and even against censorship?
“ I think if you go down the censorship route, it’s only a matter of time before censorship is turned upon you.” -musk
free speech until his interests aren’t endangered
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Anyone have this centre’s definition of hate? Its a musk twitter agenda post so it probably allergic to context
Free speech, but until something goes wrong. Then it’s totalitarian government
Musk should sue himself then. Seems like he has done the most to drive away advertisers.
Elon used to love saying he was a Free Speech Absolutist, but once again that only extends to speech he likes.